{"id":1444,"date":"2004-10-14T12:08:40","date_gmt":"2004-10-14T20:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2004-10-18T16:56:47","modified_gmt":"2004-10-19T00:56:47","slug":"politics-in-spaaace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1444","title":{"rendered":"politics in spaaace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 forbids declarations of national sovereignty off Earth (according to something quoted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tjic.com\/blog\/\">Travis<\/a>).  But can that be a serious barrier to imperialism?<\/p>\n<p>Suppose you have political debts to more people than can plausibly be appointed ambassadors to Paris and the like.  The rest of them declare themselves kings of whatever asteroids you&#8217;d like to exploit.  You give them diplomatic recognition, foreign aid, and military advisors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 forbids declarations of national sovereignty off Earth (according to something quoted by Travis). But can that be a serious barrier to imperialism? Suppose you have political debts to more people than can plausibly be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1444\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}